Collaborate Disseminate
In April, CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield posted a notice on its website concerning a ransomware attack in January. The health plan’s announcement reports that the preliminary assessments suggested that: the attack was limited to CHPDC. E… Continue reading Snatch ransomware team adds health insurer victim to their leak site
Jessica Davis reports: One month after notifying 350,000 patients of a potential theft of their protected health information, ReproSource Fertility Diagnostics has been sued by a patient over alleged security failings. ReproSource is a clinical laborat… Continue reading Quest’s ReproSource faces patient lawsuit over data breach impacting 350K patients
People who had their personal information collected by a national genetic testing organization between 2004 and 2012 may have never known that their information was acquired by DNA Diagnostics Center (DDC) in Ohio in 2012. They may find out now, though… Continue reading DNA Diagnostics Center notifying more than 2 million people who used a national genetic testing service
Ionut Ilascu reports: An affiliate of the recently discovered Yanluowang ransomware operation is focusing its attacks on U.S. organizations in the financial sector using BazarLoader malware in the reconnaissance stage. Based on observed tactics, techni… Continue reading Yanluowang ransomware operation matures with experienced affiliates
The Daily Mail is not a news outlet that I would normally turn to for breaking news about tracking down a Russian cybercriminal, but that is what they claim to have done. Will Stewart reports: One of the FBI’s most wanted men linked to ransomware gang … Continue reading Daily Mail claims to have located REvil threat actor wanted by FBI for ‘using ransomware to fleece millions of dollars’ from Americans
Another day, another attack on public schools to report. Today’s report concerns Beaverhead County High School in Montana, which was reportedly hit by Avos Locker. The threat actors added the listing to their dark web leak site on November 20, bu… Continue reading Montana high school hit by ransomware
On November 3, Lakeside School provided a notification to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office about a data breach. Lakeside School is a private school for grades 5-12 in the Seattle, Washington area. Because Massachusetts does not require… Continue reading Lakeside School breach — what happened?
Here’s another k-12 data security incident that does not appear to have made news or to have been revealed on a school district’s website (at least as far as DataBreaches.net can determine): On behalf of Spotswood Public Schools in New Jers… Continue reading NJ: Spotswood Public Schools notifying 424 employees impacted by a ransomware incident
Yesterday, DataBreaches.net reported on a hoax email sent from a government system by an individual who calls himself “Pompompurin” on Twitter (@Pompompur_in). Pompompurin had immediately claimed responsibility for the incident and gave out… Continue reading Complaining about Canada’s alleged failure to extradite someone makes no sense when there’s no request to extradite
The email in my inbox on Friday night had the subject line, “Hey sexy,” and appeared to come from “eims@ic.fbi.gov” <eims@ic.fbi.gov>. Under normal circumstances, I would have just sent it to trash, but the Twitter user … Continue reading More Accusations About a Canadian Hacker in the Wake of a Hoax Email from FBI Portal